The objective of this work was mainly to elucidate the potential of Ti-Al type P/M intermetallics for higher temperature structural applications. Investigations were made firstly on titanium aluminides for Al; 26-80% and then on TiA1-B(-Si) type intermetallics containing B and Si of less than 0.124 and 4.6%, respectively.
The results were summarized as follows:
(1) Morphologies of titanium aluminides such as Ti
3Al, TiAl and TiAl3 are highly varied under the influence of Ti-Al binary equilibrium diagram. They, mostly meta-stable as rapidly quenched, fairly change in Ti
3Al/TiAl phase boundary and other microstructures of particles after heat-treated and hence from Ti
3Al/TiAl>TiAl
3>TiAl (S) to TiAl3>TiAl (S)>TiAl in the order of microhardness.
(2) Titanium aluminide specimens (of full density) are successfully prepared by specific double-stage HIP process, with the view of preventing titanium alloy powders from metallurgically reacting with HIP container materials. They, HIP'ed in such a way, show a minimum microhardness and relatively, nonbrittleness for the stoichiometric TiAl (γ).
(3) Hot ductility of TiAl (at 900°C) may be appreciably improved by the B-addition of about 0.05% (hot tensile strength ge; 30 kgf/mm
2), although greatly dependent on HIP temperature. On the other hand, tensile strength at ambient temperature (RT) proves to be more than 40 kgf/mm
2.
(4) Hot ductility of TiAl firstly increases with Si-addition and then reaches a maximum elongation of almost 50% in the vicinity of Si: 3%, while hot tensile strength keeps nearly 30 kgf/mm
2. Excess Si-additive leads to a salient decline of hot ductility and also RT tensile strength possibly due to TiSi type precipitates.
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